So I read a few more comments (can only read a few at a time.... can't handle all of it at once), and I think what they're trying to say is that poor people don't deserve weather forecasts. If you want it, then you can pay for it.

Are they really that selfish? That they can't bear to contribute .... hold on, math is coming.... so one billion out of one trillion is *counts on fingers* like a penny out of every tax dollar? For the common good? Is the concept of "the common good" completely foreign to them? I just don't understand how you can tell all these people you live with to basically fark off and do your own weather forecasts. I just.... my brain.... my soul hurts.

Relying on inaccurate government reports can endanger lives. Last year the Service failed to predict major flooding in Nashville because it miscalculated the rate at which water was releasing from dams there. The NWS continued to rely on bad information, even after forecasters knew the data were inaccurate. The flooding resulted in 22 deaths.

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Because water being released from dams is part of the "weather". Their solution? Privatize it. Because people selling weather with a "profit motive" sell the best weather.

So sick of the right wing. Well, the one good thing about Fox, if they don't like the weather, they just "make up" new weather.

Their solution? Privatize it. Because people selling weather with a "profit motive" sell the best weather.

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What?

That post makes no sense.

One sells access to information (specifically, one's data points and predictions), not weather. Well, maybe one could sell weather if one were Storm from the X-men, but you do realize that's a comic book, right?

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